Paediatric Therapy Assistant

As the Paediatric Therapy Assistant for Child Health, you will be responsible for providing a high standard of therapy to paediatric ward-based patients and outpatients at BNHH, RHCH and AWMH. You will work with the paediatric physiotherapists in the implementation and progression of rehabilitation programmes and therapeutic interventions. You will strive to enable patients to achieve their optimum level of independence in mobility and activities of daily living on the acute and rehab wards. You will be responsible for the preparation, set-up and running of the paediatric therapy outpatient classes and hydrotherapy. You will participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team assisting with specified duties and take responsibility for the planning of your own work duties., · Clinical duties will include:-

• Supervising and progressing exercise programmes including paediatric patients.
• Gait re-education and progression
• To lead group sessions/classes
• Transfer assessment and practice with patients and carers
• To lead individual inpatient exercises sessions, · To be responsible for implementing prescribed treatment programmes with an allocated caseload, following an initial screening by a qualified Paediatric Physiotherapist
· To work with Paediatric Physiotherapists with planning and facilitating the patient's progression through the treatment plan, within the protocols/plans set out by the qualified therapists. · To take responsibility for delegated caseload and report outcomes appropriately, including reporting urgent and important information promptly to the appropriate person. Our commitment to you: We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity. Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered. The paperwork: + HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.

+ Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders. + All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post. + In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.